True Crime Tuesday: Nichole Rice trial for murder of Anita Knutson
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
WIBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Doug Kouns, former FBI agent, spent two days testifying as an expert witness in a highly publicized cold case murder trial of Nichole Rice from 2007 in Minot, North Dakota. Doug joins Kendall and Casey for True Crime Tuesday to discuss the trial.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Kendall and Casey present True Crime Tuesday on 93 WIBC. |
| 0:08.8 | Casey, it's that time. |
| 0:10.1 | You know what it is? |
| 0:11.0 | It is Tuesday, and on Tuesdays we do True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:14.8 | Where we take a look back at a case that has captivated the imagination of the populace. |
| 0:19.8 | And once again with us this week, one of our great guests on True Crime Tuesday, |
| 0:23.2 | reoccurring friend of the show, because boy, does he have a lot of stories to tell. |
| 0:26.7 | Former FBI agent Doug Coons. |
| 0:28.7 | And now Doug spends a lot of his time working independently on various cases across the country. |
| 0:33.7 | And today's going to be with us to talk about a case, Casey. |
| 0:36.1 | He just testified in. |
| 0:38.3 | It is the very well publicized cold case murder trial of Nicole Rice from 2007 in Minot, North Dakota. |
| 0:45.2 | Doug Coons joins us now. Doug Coons, hello. Hi, thanks for having me. All right. So take us back, |
| 0:49.9 | just very high level. Give us a little bit of background on this case before we talk about your |
| 0:54.8 | testimony, the Nicole Rice murder in My Not North Dakota in 2007. Sure. Yeah, this was 2007. |
| 1:02.7 | An 18-year-old woman was killed in her apartment and lengthy investigation. No one was ever |
| 1:09.9 | charged. There were a handful of suspects. |
| 1:13.6 | One of those cold crime shows called Cold Justice came back, I think in 2022 and did a special on it, |
| 1:22.1 | convinced the prosecutor that they did have a case. |
| 1:26.0 | Nicole was charged, and shortly thereafter the defense attorney |
| 1:32.1 | hired me to take a look at the case and I honestly just didn't quite get it and provided my |
| 1:39.5 | findings and ultimately a few weeks ago testified in the court trial. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WIBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of WIBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

